Coaster-wagon.



No. 733,019. PATENTED JULY 7, 1903.. 1

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GOASTER WAGON.

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PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS V. EAVENSON, OF ST. DAVIDS, PENNSYLVANIA.

COASTER-WAGION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,019, dated July 7, 1903.

Application filed February 19, 1903. Serial No. 14:4,090. (Noinodell a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Davids, Delaware county, Pennsylva nia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coaster-Wagons, of which the followingis a specification.

. My invention relates to improvements in wagons; and the object of my invention is to furnish means for'converting a packingbox--a soap-box, for instance-into a serviceable wagon-body and to furnish in connection with said body an inexpensive and effb cient set of running-gears.

In' the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, andin which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a packing-box the top of which is closed, showing groove in one of the top covering-boards. Fig. 2 is a perspective View. of a packing-box, the covering-boards of the top being removed and two of them secured to the sides of the bottom of the box. Fig. 3 is a bottom View of the box complete tive view of the box rigged as a coaster-wagon.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the lower side of the bolster for carrying the front axle; Fig. 6, an end view of the bolster, showing the front axle in section and the pin carried by the bolsterfor securing this latter to the rigid tongue of the wagon; Fig. 7, a side elevation of one of the axles. V

The body of my wagon is constructed from a packing-box a of suitable size. I preferably close the top of the box with three pieces of board 19 ad, running lengthwise of the box,

as shown in Fig. 1. These boards are nailed to the sides of the box in the usual manner. Near one end theboards b d are furnished upon one side, preferably the under side when fastto the box, with a groove f, which is adapted to receive an axle, as presently described. With the box and its contents when sold there is furnished a rear axle, a front axle, a bolster for the front axle, and wheels for both axles.

To convert the box into the body of a coaster-wagon, its top is carefully removed and the side pieces 6 d are nailed or screwed to the sides of the bottom of the box, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the sides of the boards I) d, carrying grooves fibeing placed next the bottom, as shown. The central piece 0 is nailed or screwed to the bottom of the forward end of the box and between vthe boards I) 0, so that its forward end will project out in front of the box, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4:. The boards I) c d having been secured to the bottom of the box, the rear axle g is pushed in the grooves f, its ends projecting out past the sides of the box to receivethe rear wheels h, which are held in place on the axle by 'nuts i, screwed upon its ends. The rear as well as the front axle is formed of about a five-sixteenth-inch-round bar threaded upon the ends.

The front axle K is carried in a grooved or hollowed bolsterj, Figs. 3,4, 5, and 6, in order to keep it from bending. Z is a pin or bolt passing up through the center of the outer end of the tongue 0, to which it is secured by a nut m. The front axle It can be secured to.

side pieces being furnished with transverse groovesadapted to receive an axle, and a tongue secured to the front part of the bottom of said box between the side pieces.

2. The combination in a wagon, of a body formed from a packing-box, side pieces secured to the outside sides of the bottom of the box and furnished upon their upper sides with grooves, an axle adapted to pass through said grooves, wheels carried by said axle, a tongue secured to the front part of thebottom of said box between said side pieces, an axle secured to the front end of said tongue, and wheels carried by said axle.

FRANCIS V. EAVENSON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. SELTZER, CHARLES A. BUTTER. 

